The Londonderry sifter. (South Londonderry, Vt.) 1883-19??, 1887-04-07

can be easily led by halter which COM
mands her nose, but with difficulty by
rope around her horns.
1t is remarked that the agriculture of
all countries which produce large mum.
bers of live stock is in hourishing con-
dition. They are rather buyers than
sellers of forage grains.
As sow's litter improves in size ana
quality as the dam becomes older, and
their milk usually increases, it is better
to keep old sows for breeding than TO
fatten them for pork.
1t is an easy matter to have garden
so arranged as to cultivate it with
horse hoe, but the best results arc usual
ly obtained on small plots we'll MANFRED
and worked by hand.
Sheep in the field seek the highest
knobs for sleeping places. These are
generally poor, but sheep will soon en-
rich them. The grass is sweeter there,
and tho sheep arc most healthy in such
localities.
Rules for easy subjugation Of Canada
thistlos are plentiful but not practical.
Every attempt to eradicate this weed
must be continued throughout the en-
tire season of growth, or it will fail
almost surely and all its cost will be
wasted.
No thrifty farmer will permit coarse
weeds, thistlcs, briars or bushes of any
kind to grow by the roadside adjoining
his fields. One or two days work each
year for two or three years with a stout
bush scytho will cause these Improbable
varieties of vegetation to give place to
valuable grasses.
The great flow Of milk of cows is truly
artificial. In state of nature the COW
gives only tho necessary quantity to
sustain the calf. The greater and long
or yield of milk is the result of better
treatment and longer manipulation of
the teats. Hence to increase the yield
of milk fe;d and milk well.
1t is asserted that mixture of lime in
clay soils has the effect of making them
porous and friablc, hence by such treat
mcnt they are made more workable and
are fitted for nourishing the life of
plants. Clays that harden into solid
Jumps after shower of rain are little
better than rocks, in so far as the food
OF plants is concerned.
A writer in the Farm and Fruit Grow
er advises against the planting of fruit
trees, especially peaches, near together,
saying from twenty to twenty-five feet
is not too far apart. He claims the
wider planting makes better shaped
trees, with better access of air and sun
shine, while the tree has greater area
from which to draw root supplies.
J. A. Smith of Collinsyille Conn.,, set
a barrel in a hole in his garden last fall,
leaving about ten inches above the
ground, filled it with russets, left it I'M
headed, merely placing over it cover
of sheet iron to exclude the snow and
rain. The middle Of March they were
found nearly all perfectly sound and in
better condition than apples stored in
the cellar.
Farms in some sections of Pennsylva-
MIA maintain the fertility of their soils
by applying 100 bushels of slaked lime
to the acre once in five years. 1t is said
that fields which have been subjected to
this treatment for the past 100 years, are
as productive now as when the expert
mcnt was first tried. This application
depends for its value much upon the
original character of the soil.
The following preparation applied to
the surface will prevent any rusting on
plows or any other metal surfaces: Melt
one ounce of resin in gill oflinseed oil,
and when hot mix with two quarts of
kerosene oil. This can be kept on hand
and applied in a moment with brush or
rag to the metal surface or any tool that
IS not going to be used for few days,
preventing any rust, and saving much
vexation when the time comes to use it
again.